It narrowly beats away from the prior online jackpot record of $3.2 million established by the same online casino in 2020. A gamer named Dori B won the prize on BetMGM’s platform while playing a $10 slot. The woman from New Jersey collected her winnings at the Borgata Online Casino. The $3.5 million prize was the greatest in the history of online gambling in the United States.

28, a New Jersey gambler became the winner of a seven-figure iGaming jackpot after playing the exclusive MGM Grand Millions slot machine at one of the state’s multiple online real money casinos.

The two largest jackpots both came from penny slot machines.On Nov. They would not give his age or hometown.Īll three jackpots were won on progressive slot machines, which link slot players from many of Atlantic City’s 11 casinos and form a communal jackpot pool. Thursday’s winner was described by the casino only as a male from Ocean County. None of the winners would publicly identify themselves or speak with reporters. The two largest jackpots would total nearly a billion pennies, Lupo said. I’m sure that these two customers would readily agree.” We’ve always said that Borgata is a lucky place to play.

“Lightning struck twice in less than two weeks on our penny slot machines,” said Joe Lupo, Borgata’s senior vice president of operations. A few hours earlier, another New York man won $700,161 on a Wheel of Fortune 50-cent machine. was playing a Wheel of Fortune penny progressive slot machine and won $3,491,146. On January 16, a man from Staten Island, N.Y. The man was playing a Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers machine when five “progressive” symbols appeared on the payout line, signaling a jackpot of more than $4,963,819. The payout came less than two weeks after a pair of gamblers took home more than $4 million from two separate slot jackpots. Lightning has struck for the third time in less than two weeks at an Atlantic City casino.Īn Ocean County man won a slot jackpot of nearly $5 million Thursday night playing a penny slot machine at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

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